A Benchmark Industry - Focused,

Industry - Driven Program

Fundamentals of the Bioscience Industry Certificate Program

Cutting edge and innovative, this industry-focused and industry-driven program is designed to provide

participants with a comprehensive introduction to the critical factors of strategic importance that drive the

bioscience industry.

Program Goal

Provide current life sciences graduate students, post-docs, and incumbent employees with a comprehensive introduction to the complexities of the bioscience business environment. 

Course format

Consists of 3 modules:

– 1st module: details the product development process from a technical, scientific, and strategic perspective and provides an understanding of the regulatory process required to bring a scientific product to market. 

– 2nd module: learn about the basic concepts of business management pertaining to the Bioscience Industry.

– 3rd module: provides an understanding of corporate culture and effective career development strategies.

A critical component of the Fundamentals of the Bioscience Industry program is the extensive

professional career development mentoring extended to all participants in the program.

The course will be augmented with extensive mentoring by the industry

executives who teach and participate as guest lecturers in the course.

http://www.biotech.sunysb.edu/educWork/certprog/students/index.html

Benefits of the program

• Understand the process by which a technology becomes a product • Gain insight into the factors that influence corporate decision making • Appreciate how each department functions within a company that

contributes to corporate objectives • Be better prepared to navigate your own career and contribute to

corporate goals • Gain the contacts that will help you be successful

• Affiliated with:– Stony Brook University's MBA program: Accepted as

course work– Stony Brook University's Department of Biomedical

Engineering MS/PhD program: Accepted for credit– Columbia University's MA in Biotechnology Program:

Accepted for credit

Academic Partners

More Information:

http://www.biotech.sunysb.edu/educWork/certprog/index.html

Angeline Judex, Program Director Center for BiotechnologyPsychology A, 3rd FloorStony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY 11794-2580 Tel: 631-632-8521 Fax: 631-632-8577